Salford Council will put our interests first.
If Sale want to play at the new stadium they will come in as commercial tenants and why not?
The split of revenue and/or costs of operating at Irlam are a matter for the Board.
The new ground is the only show in town,the only option to stay in Super League.
Just lie back and enjoy it and let others worry about the numbers.
Wakefield are here on Friday and their supporters would give their right arms for what we have,shared ground or not.

Yes I do. BK has had nothing but personal abuse from Stockport County fans for years. Fans even wear offensive T shirts and take offensive banners to Edgeley Park. Stockport County fans hate him and he knows it. He has tried several times to appease them without any success. Why try and appease these people if he doesn't give a shiny?



Just to explain my understanding of how I think it works. The hospitality packages are sold by the club. They will offer a package at say £100 her head for Ticket, match programme advert, 3 course meal. and a parking for say every 4. The Stadium Managements catering contractor will then charge the club say £20 a head for the meal and this is how they make their money. It it then obviously up to the club to sell as many hospitality packages as possible to make more money. Consider though that the club will have extra capacity of 750 to sell rather than say 200 at present. The Catering contractors will not solely rely on rugby matches alone, they will have their own sales team selling out the room(s) for functions, business conferences 52 weeks a year. A club will also have it's own matchday sponsors for things such as matchballs, match sponsor etc.

Concessions such as stadium kiosks I think are different and all the profit will go to the catering contractors.

Not sure why.

Fact is, it's a different sport. It's a crap one to be fair, but a different one. I have the Union v League debate all the time at work, and every time I wonder why once the debate has finished. People don't argue between tennis and badminton.... where the princliples are the same but the sports are very different... so why do we ? I'm sure I would take in a game or two if they were based there.... It's not like I would give up league to watch it... and I don't think anybody else would.... and I bet I wouldn't be the only one to go to games there either.... If they moved Man City reserves in I'd watch some of their games too... despite being a United fan... So I'm not sure where the crime is.

It's a stadium that is being built in Salford... by the council... so they would be shooting themselves in the foot to be promoting a club without the Salford name. Course they will want people to watch Sale there.... but it's in their interests as a City to have Salford as the primary tennants and promote our games.

Salford needn't worry about anyone moving into Barton as joint tennants.Aslong as the club retains control of the purse strings and sets it's own budgets it will either stand or fall by what it does.I would think more of a concern is to get the product on the pitch correct rather than worring about the effects Sale Sharks may or may not have.
They will just be another tennant paying a level of rent set by the owners of the stadium, I can't understand why Salford never chose the option of remaining at the Willows which as I have said many times is a proper Rugby ground, yes tired at the moment but that is down to lack of investment over the years by various administrations but what would it have looked like had a couple of millionm been spent on it which I would have the club could have afforded thereby remaining master of their own destiny.

I also must say that the playing surface currently is second to non it was in fantastic condition when I was at Swintons game last Friday it will be such a shame to see yet another historic ground go they way many others have.

am enjoying the debate and as i said earlier got a foot in both camps. It has been mentioned in the thread about mr kennedy and wouldnt trust the fella as far as i could throw him. Stockport havent helped themselves by having supporters trust inplace who were very amateurish in a professional environment. Sale moved in and the rest is history my football team is non league for 1st time in over 100years. Dont want my rugby team to suffer from his meddling.

Only time will tell .... I am of the opinion this is the worse case scenario potentially for the Reds....didn't Sir John invite this Kennedy clown along for preliminary talks when the original Stadium plan was first mooted?...I believe he wanted to run the show then ...so what would be different now with Salford in a weaker position?...Unfortunately it is out of Salford's control... sharing with another Rugby team albeit from the other code also damages the prospect of attracting new fans ....if some guy wants to take his son along to a game for the 1st time in the new stadium ....he will now have a choice which kinda defeats the object of one of the benefits of the move

Can't be d reading through every post, but I'd bet that at least one person has mentioned something along the lines of they work with a Stockport fan and Sale are the devil. Am I correct?

If that's the case, then don't let one person sway your opinion.

Always enjoyed going to Stockport as it's down the road from Wythenshawe, but I've had about enough of it now. Their fans are very one dimensional, and although they have indeed been f*cked over along the way (not necessarily saying Sale have done it to them, though Kennedy isn't my favourite person either) - they can't do anything but blame anybody else. At the end of the day, they weren't blaming us 3 years ago this week when they got promoted to League 1, were they? A lot has happened to them and it's not black and white, but we don't dictate what they do on the pitch

The sad thing is that a load of their fans just can't see past the powers that be doing things they don't like and decide take it out on Sale's fans. Some of the stories about before and after a Sale home game are reminiscent of 1970's Football matches. They don't happen very often but there are verbal and sometimes physical attacks by idiots.

I still have some respect for Stockport County as a Football club and I'd hate to see them disappear completely. But in terms of the relationship between the 2 clubs it has run it's course

I personally look forward to a ground share with Salford. But you're all fairly intelligent people, I'm sure. So don't let a couple of people scare you off because they think Kennedy will want to make the ground his and make you 2nd class citizens. Your chairman has been quite vocal since the development of the ground about the hard work you've put into it and not wanting that to be taken over by somebody - and quite right.

We're not a bad bunch and we're only on the doorstep. We're both competing with a couple of small teams called United and City, don't know if you've heard of them - so IF it does happen I think we all need to stick together.

Be nice to have a modern ground with great facilities - and not to mention standing areas!

3 way share with yourselves, Sale and FC UTD

But they have to change their names as part of the deal
So we have Salford City Reds RLFC,
Salford Sharks RUFC
FC UTD of Salford

Then people will say there's Salfords stadium over there.
Joint market each other and give discounts, united you are strong.

"Salford Council will put our interests first."
Why?
Which political mix?
Under what financial pressure from central Government (who provide, with Europe, over 4/5ths of the money Salford can spend)?

"Can't be d reading through every post, but I'd bet that at least one person has mentioned something along the lines of they work with a Stockport fan and Sale are the devil. Am I correct?"

No ... work with loads of Sale and some Stockport fans. Sup, on way home (naughty but nice) (when I can) in the Olde Vic so think I meet a fair number of Sharks.

No issues with any of the fans. None ... admire them to be honest. Have issues with Kennedy and with the future of RU and their flagship league.

Load of scare mongering for me with the negative comments byt some Stockport fans as as a none football fan looking in it seems that a dieing club are being left to die a natural death.
Can't for the life of me see Wilky selling to anyone without cast iron agrements about Salfords long term future as without doubt he has the club and fans best interests at heart.

And I'll repeate what I've often said that a bit of common sense on the marketing side, coaching side and admimistration side would help both teams. I mean how many tim es have we on here slated the club for thier shocking advertising or amaturish way they run certain things and I'd doubt that Sale opperate that way. and can anyone see any disadvantage towards a common brains trust on the trining and development side? even if it's help with our kicking game there are benefits to be had.

As I have said before I welcome the opportunity to utilise the potential of increasing our fan base, lets get real 2500 fans & falling, if you think this is going to support this stadium you are not in the real world.
Having a new stadium will not generate an increase our fan base, improving the products on offer will? We need to accept we have a community stadium, we don't carry much sway, we need to thank Salford council for backing the project as without them we would not even be debating maybe a new tenant, I for one welcome rugby 12 months of the year "bring it on"

Get this joker banned Mods as such intelligence is not permitted

Couldn't agree more.

I kinda shocked myself with a wry smirk agreeing with you

Would be nice to have a nice new modern stadium would it with a nice boardroom where the owner of the club skips half the stuff then charges you to use the room. Nice to have hospitality areas and get charged through the nose to use them. If sale continue as they have been doing kennedy will pull the plug as he pumps in £1 million a season for a team finishing tenth. Once again putting the rent up when he said he wouldnt has alianated sale sharks even more with stockport. Shame heywood road cant be developed.

Great idea, and actually agree.